Continue Reading Below Unfortunately, Poulter left due to “scheduling conflicts” three months later, though we wouldn’t be surprised if the Tolkien Estate made him leave because he might make people think a digitally de-aged Hugo […]
Also, The Lord of the Rings is obviously full of Christian themes (e.g., a magical bearded dude gets resurrected), and Sauron is, arguably, a Satanic figure, while The Shire is an “unspoiled paradise” like Eden […]
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for a few elf characters in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode 3.] The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has the unenviable […]
After confining itself to largely familiar Middle-earth locales in its first two episodes, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finally shown us a place never depicted on screen before: Númenor. Indeed, […]
The cast of Lord of the Rings is standing behind the diversity in their new spinoff series, The Rings of Power, after racist fans of the show spread hate about the cast’s diversity. On Wednesday, […]
Getty Image Seemingly inspired by Logan Paul’s Twitter review of Jordan Peele’s Nope — which the boxer and social media personality declared was “one of the worst movies” he’s seen — Elon Musk has hopped on […]
[Ed. note: This post contains light spoilers for the end of episode 2 of Rings of Power.] In the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, our glimpses of […]
Early on in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, viewers are privy to a conversation between Arondir — an original character invented by Amazon — and his friend, in which the latter […]
The following article contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Do not read until you have seen episodes one and two … Hello and welcome to the first recap of […]
“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” goes way back in Middle-earth lore, thousands of years before “The Lord of the Rings.” It’s loosely based on the supplemental texts and appendices that J.R.R. […]
Fri, 02 September 2022 at 5:44 pm Continue Here » Prime Video has made the decision to suspend ratings for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. An Amazon Studios source, via The […]
Not to get political, but if you ask me about which of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy humanoids is best, dwarves or elves, I would go with dwarves every time. You are free to think what you […]
J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t just love maps — he ascribed the entire world-building success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to his cartographical exercises. And it’s no surprise that the new Amazon series […]
One of the appeals of a sprawling prequel series like The Rings of Power is in seeing the world you love from the Lord of the Rings movies (and the Hobbit trilogy, we see and […]
In the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, a reprieve is temporary. While the forces of good enjoy periods of peace, evil gathers in secret—unseen until it’s too late. Such is the landscape of Middle-earth’s Second […]
It almost never bodes well when a studio leads with its desire for a new project to become the Next Big Thing™ the way Amazon has with its ultra-expensive Lord of the Rings prequel series, […]
For a massive show rumored to have a production budget of more than $1 billion, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s first moments are decidedly small. Evocative of the quote from Bilbo in […]
And so it came to pass, in the 21st year after the arrival of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” — and eight years after “The Hobbit: The Battle of the […]
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arrives on Prime Video this week burdened by outrageously high audience expectations. Not only does the streaming series have to live up to J.R.R. Tolkien’s […]
“All shall love me and despair.” The line from Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring is the apex of Cate Blanchett’s striking turn as the elven sorceress Galadriel. In an instant, all hell seems […]